House Votes to Put New Limits on Abortions

The Republican-led House voted Tuesday to impose the strictest new limits on abortion in a decade, revisiting an issue that energizes the GOP's conservative base and builds on outrage over the actions of a Pennsylvania abortion doctor convicted of killing babies after they were born alive.

The bill, which would ban abortion after a fetus is 20 weeks old, returns the spotlight to an issue that bedeviled the GOP in the 2012 elections,...